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iaejpiejf23
12y ago
> The modern day Inuit are descendants of conquerors in exactly the same way that descendants of European settlers are. Highly doubtful. The Dorset culture probably died off due to change in climate and their failure to adapt rather than
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iaejpiejf23
12y ago
I did say otherwise? Not sure what your point is.
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12y ago
> But let's not romanticize Native American culture either. Absolutely. But lets also not pretend that the natives were racially motivated genocidal maniacs either. > The Comanche formed a barrier between the Spanish and the Fren
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> Do you have any sources for that. Yes, it called history and biology. Disease doesn't work that way and history proves it didn't work that way. > The hypothesis that disease was primarily responsible for wiping out Native
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12y ago
Japan, SKorea, Taiwan and the UK have the benefit of living in pax americana and being an ally of america. It has access to all the resources they need... Russia's problem is that their vast territory is also their achilles heel. They
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> The U.S. at that time was nobody. The US was an APEX power and had been for a long time. Nobody could conquer it. To claim the US was a nobody is a laughable. > It was still undergoing the post-Civil War recovery After the civil war
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> The disease hypothesis puzzles me because it cannot explain the reality of such countries The disease hypothesis is bullshit. Some retard wrote a silly book about it and nytimes pushed it like it was gospel. The royal proclamation of 1
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But 95% of natives didn't die of disease. Unless you are saying white men are a disease. We had to cull the indians like we culled the bison, deer, wolves, bears, etc. It was the most successful genocidal campaign in human history. It
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> I mean very productive land, lots of mineral resources... It wasn't productive like the US territory was. It was mostly inhospitable tundra. The bolsheviks weren't an economic superpower for the same reason the canadians aren